In a dispatch from Moonbase Zebra, Heraldress Bachmann whips out the Alarum Way Back Tesseract Generating Time Morpher to spam the ether with:

"Take this into consideration. If we look at American history, between 1942 and 1947, the data that was collected by the Census Bureau was handed over to the FBI and other organizations at the request of President Roosevelt, and that's how the Japanese were rounded up and put into the internment camps," said Bachmann. "I'm not saying that that's what the Administration is planning to do, but I am saying that private personal information that was given to the Census Bureau in the 1940s was used against Americans to round them up, in a violation of their constitutional rights, and put the Japanese in internment camps."

and previously from Moonbase Zebra:

" I believe that there's a very strong chance that we will see that young people will be put into mandatory service. And the real concern is that there are provisions for what I would call re-education camps for young people, where young people have to go and get trained in a philosophy that the government puts forward and then they have to go and work in some of these politically correct forums. It's very concerning. It appears that there's a philosophical agenda behind all of this, and especially if young people are mandated to go into this. As a parent, I would have a very, very difficult time seeing my children do this.

I know it's a stretch, but IMO it's not beyond reasonable, to inquire if the use of the word camps and the concept of mandatory group education (never mind census data being used during wartime) would be used by her in regard to, for instance, a draft?

Not that she'd oppose that. Blood, guts, and patriotism centered around the martial? Good. What febrile imaginings she's attempting to elaborate? Bad. Probably because they are just that: vague phantoms that don't exist.

Sort of like whatever is lurking under her bed. Dust bunnies, most likely; really vicious dust bunnies.

Josh says:

"It's not a matter of ignoring or papering anything over. But it's worth remembering whoever it was who said that none of us deserve to be known or remembered only for our worst moments."

Then Zachary Roth posts about how Sanford belongs to some sort of xtian cult called C Street...housed in, of all places, a former convent.

Oh, the irony: a bunch of dudes in a former convent learning how to be faithful heterosexuals? What do they do? Get up in drag, call each other Hercules, and find out what it's like to be a wooo-woman W. O. M. A. N. ?

Anyway, on a serious note: what's up with that whole buying into forgiveness schtick, with the "we shouldn't remember him at his worst"?

Why not remember him as the hypocrite he is?

Because what I'm remembering is that these are the DUDES who would be quite content with, even want to impose, a United States of Theocracy.

And that is working out just great in Afghanistan; or Iran; and it was the bee's knees in Europe before the Enlightenment.

Give me that old time religion, my brown eye.

Updated: not that anyone cares, but is there a difference between Sanford's performance, and Giuliani's press conference on May 10, 2000 where Giuliani basically divorced his wife at a press conference?

That's politics. You're welcome.